Conroe family raises money for son’s Leukemia treatment

Published 5:49 pm, Thursday, September 19, 2013

Taylor Cox, 5, of Conroe, was diagnosed with acute lymphoid leukemia June 3 and started treatment the next day.

His parents are hosting a benefit Saturday to help raise money for medical bills.

The family has organized live music, food and raffles to include a fully restored 1982 Yamaha 650CC Bobber motorcycle and Texans pro football tickets among other prizes.

The benefit will kick off at 4 p.m. at Davis Brothers Construction, located at 2200 Louetta Road in Spring. For a recommended donation of $15 for adults and $5 for children, attendees will receive barbecue, a drink and admission to watch the Scooter Brown Band play from 7-9 p.m.

Attendees also can buy T-shirts and other merchandise in orange, the color of leukemia awareness.

The National Cancer Institute estimates that 66 percent of ALL patients remain in remission after five years, but the road to recovery is lined with powerful and sometimes painful treatments.

Taylor goes to Texas Children’s Hospital once a week to take his chemotherapy treatments. His mother Brandi said he has taken eight kinds of drugs, which at times have made him sore, swollen, lethargic and nauseous.

“That’s kind of where we’re at now. He’s just really nauseous, and he runs fevers,” she said.

Taylor will continue his weekly treatments until February “if all goes well,” Brandi said. Then he’ll be able to take his chemo orally at home. But fevers and dehydration send him to the emergency room for days at a time.

“Sometimes we’ll have to go into the emergency room for them just to give him fluids for 12 hours. When he’s nauseous, I can’t get the medicine in him,” she said.

Brandi said the doctors hope to be able to take Taylor off chemo in August 2016.

For more information, visit the Facebook page Taylor Cox’s Fight Against Leukemia.